English: African American pre-Negro Leagues baseball player Walter Ball of the Leland Giants baseball team, throwing a baseball, standing on a baseball field in Chicago, Illinois. Ball also played with the Chicago Union Giants during this time, but uniform appears to be of the Leland Giants. This photonegative taken by a Chicago Daily News photographer in the early part of the season, may have been published in the newspaper.
Collected from Library of Congress: SDN-055360, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum.
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